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28th January
2008 |
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Women in Leadership:
Sabbatical Study Timetable |
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Tuesday 29th -meet with the Archdeacon
Christine - Northampton |
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Monday- Weds 4-6 Feb: meet with women clergy in
Peterborough Diocese. |
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Tuesday 12th Feb meet with Dean of Women's Ministry:
Bristol Diocese.
13th-14th Feb meet with women clergy in Bristol. |
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Monday Feb 25 - Thursday 28th Feb meet with
Archdeacon Annette and women clergy in Diocese of Chelmsford. |
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Thursday 6th March fly to Canada to spend time in the
Diocese of Nova Scotia with Prince Edward Island as a guest of the Diocesan
Bishop elect: +Sue Moxey, and her clergy. |
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14th January 2008 -
OUTLINE OF STUDY LEAVE PROPOSAL |
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Following the discussions at a meeting(
July 2007) of representative women clergy of the Northern Province with the
Archbishop of York and three Bishops, concerning the lack of women in senior
appointments in the Province I would like to pick up a point made there and
further investigate maybe one or two of its associated assumptions.
The
question is:-
'Does having a woman in a position of senior leadership in a
Diocese enable other women in that Diocese to realise their gifting and calling
into leadership roles? |
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As a woman priest who has held
positions of senior leadership in the N.H.S both as clinician and administrator
I am thankful for my then senior leaders who nurtured me and enabled my skills,
my knowledge and experience to be realised in a position of senior leadership.
A proportion of this mentoring and enabling was delivered by the 'Women's
unit'. Conscious of gender bias in the N H S in the early 1990's in the
organisation this unit was established with the aim of achieving a 10% increase
in the number of senior women leaders in each Regional Health Authority area.
The aims of the women's unit can be summarised into two specific areas of work:
first to enable women to understand, engage with and offer their own 'womanly'
contribution to the maleness of boardroom and senior leadership contexts.
Secondly to inform and engage present leadership structures in identifying
maleness and exclusive language and assumptions in their contexts. |
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As I write this there are 13 women
Archdeacons in the Church of England, but only one of those in the Northern
Province, and 2 women Deans; both in the Province of Canterbury. (Office of
Archbishops Secretary for Appointments) The Furlong Table (Women's deployment
league table of dioceses 2005) shows that women now account for 17% of full
time stipendiary clergy in the dioceses of the Church of England- women
Archdeacons account for 8% of the total. |
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Do the women Archdeacons and Deans feel
that they have been able to sufficiently promote 'women into senior leadership'
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I intend to interview one woman in
Senior leadership, and five stipendiary women clergy, where the Diocese in
which they serve has moved up the Furlong Table since the year 2000, repeat
this in a Diocese that has remained static in the table during that time, and
again in a Diocese which has fallen back in the table, over the same period of
time. I intend then to compare their stories of experiences with a woman in
Senior leadership in the Anglican Communion abroad and five of her stipendiary
women clergy (Bp Sue Moxley: Suffragen Bishop of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward
Island. ) |
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What do I hope to learn, and
why is it important to my future ministry? |
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I was ordained Deacon in 1991, and
priest in 1994. I left the Health Service to become a full time stipendiary
priest in 1998, after working in a position of senior leadership for 8 years. I
find myself 10years on in a place where my leadership skills are valued and
being used by the Diocese. I have approx 10years left to serve before
retirement ( from a stipendiary post!) What direction might my future ministry
take? What are the responsibilities upon me and my female colleagues to provide
role model mentoring to younger women? Both lay and ordained. Is there a
ministry to the structures that I should be engaging with, or supporting my
colleagues with. Thus far I've concentrated on 'doing the job' of Priest- in
-charge, Team Rector, helping to deliver Clergy Leadership Programme/ whatever
I've seen to be an opportunity to serve and to contribute to the mission of the
church. |
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I need to retouch some Feminist
Theology, and renew my understanding, as there have been new understandings
developed over this past ten years as the role of women in the church has
evolved. |
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I want to be reminded of the injustice
towards women in leadership. I feel that my journey here in this Diocese has
been relatively pain free so far, but I need to re engage with some of those
feelings of powerlessness, inadequacy and inferiority that prejudice in the
past has caused; so that I can move on. |
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I hope that my leadership skills will be
more matured through this time of discovery and reflection, that I might enable
more people, male and female, young and old, highly educated and not so highly
educated into realising their potential to be leaders of God's people wherever
that call might be expressed. |
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